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Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits
(1961)
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Johnny Horton
Even though he also cut a slew of country ballads and honky tonk tunes, Horton's fame rests with these folk saga songs. After spending the majority of the '50s reworking the classic sound of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, and Webb Pierce, Horton scored with country shuffle cuts like "Honky Tonk Man." It wasn't until 1958, though, that he broke ...
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When Love Finds You
(1994)
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Vince Gill
By 1994, Vince Gill was a bona fide country superstar. His recordings had sold into the millions and his tours were sellouts around the globe. He was ubiquitous on the radio as well. Producer Tony Brown took an even heavier hand on Gill's recordings, even though Gill's own songs dominated his records. The tightrope walk between a handsome tender ...
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Legends of Country: Classic Hits from the '50s, '60s & '70s
(2006)
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Various Artists
Shout! Factory's 2006 Legends of Country: Classic Hits from the '50s, '60s & '70s was released in conjunction with a PBS television special of the same name, and where the TV show showcased live recordings, the album is a three-disc box set that serves up original recordings of 57 country standards -- roughly one disc apiece for the '50s, '60s and ...
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Shock'n Y'All
(2003)
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Toby Keith
Since Toby Keith not only can come across as a loudmouth redneck but seems to enjoy being a loudmouth redneck, it's easy for some listeners to dismiss him as a backwoods right-wing crank -- particularly when he succumbs to such easy impulses as mocking Dixie Chick Natalie Maines in concert and naming his 2003 album Shock'n Y'All, not so cleverly ...
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Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(2004)
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Toby Keith
Toby Keith's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 picks up where his first hits collection, 1998's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, left off -- in 1999, when Keith signed to DreamWorks. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover everything Keith released between 1999's How Do You Like Me Now?! and Greatest Hits, Vol. 2's release in November 2004. It inexplicably bypasses his 2003 ...
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The Shawshank Redemption
(1994)
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Thomas Newman
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The Essential Ray Price
(2007)
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Ray Price
There was a previous Ray Price compilation on Columbia/Legacy, The Essential Ray Price: 1951-1962, with an almost identical title to this 2007 release. This one is an entirely different anthology, however; not only is it merely titled The Essential Ray Price, but it's considerably bigger and its chronological span is much wider, as the two-CD, 40 ...
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Here for the Party
(2004)
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Gretchen Wilson
Taking its cues from her hit single "Redneck Woman," Here for the Party's opening title track introduces Gretchen Wilson in no uncertain terms. "I'm here for the beer and the ball-bustin' band," she sings over its emphatic kick drum beat and barroom twang. "I may not be a ten, but the boys say I clean up good." The vocalist's brassy delivery -- ...
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Dwight Sings Buck
(2007)
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Dwight Yoakam
Is there any singer better suited to record an album of Buck Owens covers than Dwight Yoakam? Yoakam first came onto the country scene in the 1980s as the new face and voice of Bakersfield country, a subgenre Owens and Merle Haggard had put on the map. Yoakam not only sang the praises of Owens, he sang with the West Coast legend, and their duet on ...
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Greatest Hits [1990]
(1990)
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Hank Williams
This set, coming along as it did fairly early in the CD era, provides a very solid look at the genius of Hank Williams and is a fine place to start for anyone looking for an introduction. The price is right, sound is OK, and it has pretty much all of the most important material, and some curiosities as well. Arguably there are omissions, but that ...
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dwightyoakamacoustic.net
(2000)
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Dwight Yoakam
At first glance, dwightyoakamacoustic.net might look like a simple re-recorded greatest-hits album that's pleasant but unnecessary. However, the spontaneity and depth of these performances should give any Yoakam fan pause before dismissing it out of hand. Other than the fact that it has no discernible connection to the Internet, the album is ...
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Ten Years of Hits
(1984)
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Mickey Gilley
Mickey Gilley may have been indebted to Jerry Lee Lewis, or it could be that the two cousins shared the same influences as well as bloodline, so they came out as near mirror images, right down to the way Gilley delivers a lascivious chuckle at the end of a verse in "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time." Mickey followed in Jerry Lee's ...
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16 Biggest Hits
(1999)
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Ray Price
16 Biggest Hits may be missing some noteworthy songs, but it does provide an excellent summary of Ray Price's Columbia recordings between 1956 and 1973. Since it does contain the majority of his best-known songs -- "Crazy Arms," "I've Got a New Heartache," "City Lights," "Heartaches by the Number," "The Same Old Me," "Make the World Go Away," "For ...
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21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection
(2006)
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Buck Owens
It's not accurate to say that Buck Owens' catalog has been mistreated on CD -- he was one of the first major country artists to be given an excellent, comprehensive multi-disc box set, and he's one of the few country artists to see most of his actual full-length LPs reissued on CD. Despite all this activity, there has been one glaring omission ...
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The Soul & the Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck
(2002)
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Johnny Paycheck
Most listeners know Johnny Paycheck from "Take This Job and Shove It" -- a song so popular and so iconic that it overshadows everything else Paycheck did, not just for pop fans but for country listeners. Couple that with a reputation for being a roughneck hellion and you have somebody who is known as a persona, not as a musician. And that's a real ...
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16 Biggest Hits: George Jones & Tammy Wynette
(1999)
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette
16 Biggest Hits: George Jones & Tammy Wynette provides an excellent summary of George Jones and Tammy Wynette's duets for Epic between 1971 and 1980. All of their best-known songs -- "The Ceremony," "We're Gonna Hold On," "Golden Ring," "(We're Not) The Jet Set," "Roll My Sweet Baby's Arms" -- are here at a midline price, making an excellent ...
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Serving 190 Proof
(1979)
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Merle Haggard
Haggard appears here in the midst of what he admitted was a mid-life crisis. That's no reason to dismiss this record, however, as crisis introspection served him well. Possibly the best of his MCA albums, it includes "Red Bandana," "My Own Kind of a Hat," and a brooding meditation on the emptiness of stardom called "Footlights." ~ Dan Cooper, All ...
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12 Shades of Brown
(1993)
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Junior Brown
Brown's debut deck shines like gold with standout original material like "They Don't Choose to Live That Way," "My Hillbilly Hula Gal" and "My Baby Don't Dance to Nothing but Ernest Tubb" being particular noteworthy. Possessing a voice that will curl the hair on the back of your neck while picking both single-string picking and slide stylings on ...
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40 #1 Hits
(2004)
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Merle Haggard
With a title like 40 #1 Hits, it's easy to assume that the collection will contain nothing but number one hits, whether it's from the Billboard charts or Cash Box, and it's also easy to assume that it would contain all of an artist's number one hits. In the case of Merle Haggard's double-disc 2004 collection, neither is true. Using just the ...
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Last Man Standing
(2006)
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Jerry Lee Lewis
It often seems like there are only two ways for rock, country, and blues veterans to launch comebacks when they're senior citizens: confront mortality head on or surround yourself with superstar guests to help carry you through a half-hearted stroll through your back catalog, scattering a few new tunes along the way. At first glance, Jerry Lee ...
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The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam
(2004)
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Dwight Yoakam
Take a look at the title of Rhino's 2004 Dwight Yoakam collection -- this is The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam, not The Greatest Hits , which means that there are several hit singles missing. Actually, there are a grand total of 20 charting singles missing, the exact length of The Very Best Of and certainly more than can be winnowed down to a single ...
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The Definitive Collection
(2005)
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Loretta Lynn
MCA's 2005 release The Definitive Collection expands upon its 2002 collection, All Time Greatest Hits. The 2002 disc contained 22 tracks, including all 16 of Loretta Lynn's Billboard number one country hits (including her duets with Conway Twitty). This collection contains every one of those 22 tracks, adding three iconic songs that weren't on All ...
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Webb Pierce
(2001)
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Webb Pierce
There aren't many Webb Pierce compilations on the market, but 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection isn't necessarily a solution to the problem. Of its 12 tracks, 11 are already featured on the more thorough King of the Honky-Tonk: From the Original Decca Masters (the exception is the number one hit "Love, Love, Love," which for some ...
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All Time Greatest Hits
(2003)
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Roger Miller
There have been many collections of Roger Miller's hitmaking peak on Mercury over the years, but few have been as comprehensive or as good as Mercury/Chronicle's 2003 CD, All Time Greatest Hits. Spanning 20 tracks over the course of one CD, this contains all the big songs: "Dang Me," "Chug-a-Lug," "Do Wacka Do," "In the Summertime (You Don't Want ...
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Mama Tried/Pride in What I Am
(2006)
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Merle Haggard
In early 2006, roughly in time for the 40th anniversary of Merle Haggard's debut album, Capitol Nashville launched an ambitious Haggard catalog project, reissuing ten albums as a series of five two-fers, each adorned with bonus tracks. All these albums had been reissued before, either stateside by Capitol or Koch or in the U.K. by EMI or BGO, but ...
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